The Theory of Elementary Waves (TEW) eliminates Wave Particle Duality

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1916-1922
Author(s):  
Jeffrey H Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Wave Function ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Zero Energy ◽  
Wave Function Collapse ◽  
Wave Particle Duality ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
Elementary Waves ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

Wave particle duality is a mistake. Another option was neither conceived nor debated, which is a better foundation for quantum mechanics. The Theory of Elementary Waves (TEW) is based on the idea that particles follow zero energy waves backwards. A particle cannot be identical with its wave if they travel in opposite directions. TEW is the only form of local realism that is consistent with the results of the experiment by Aspect, Dalibard and Roger (1982). Here we show that 1. although QM teaches that complementarity in a double slit experiment cannot be logically explained, TEW explains it logically, without wave function collapse, and 2. gives an unconventional explanation of the Davisson Germer experiment. 3. There is empirical evidence for countervailing waves and particles and 4. zero energy waves. 5. TEW clarifies our understanding of probability amplitudes and supports quantum math. 6. There is an untested experiment for which TEW and wave particle duality predict different outcomes. If TEW is valid, then wave particle duality is not necessary for quantum math, which is the most accurate and productive science ever. With a more solid foundation, new vistas of science open, such as the study of elementary waves.

scholarly journals Decrypting the Central Mystery of Quantum Mathematics:

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 255-282
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Particle Gun ◽  
Zero Energy ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Richard Feynman ◽  
Elementary Waves ◽  
Math Problems ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

This article proposes a solution to the double slit experiment of Quantum Mechanics. We attack the problem from a previously untried angle. Unsolved math problems must be attacked from unexpected angles because every conventional approach has already been tried and failed. Richard Feynman warned that the quantum world is such a strange place that humans can’t understand it. There is empirical evidence of particles following zero energy waves backwards, although that is counterintuitive. Schr˝odinger waves carry zero energy: they carry probability amplitudes instead. In our proposed model zero energy Schr˝odinger waves emanating from every point on the target screen pass backwards through the two slits, interfere at the particle gun, and a particle randomly chooses which wave to follow backwards. Once that decision is made the particle follows its wave with a probability of one, through only one slit (it doesn’t matter which slit) and inevitably strikes that point from which its wave emanates. This produces the same math and same pattern on the target screen. We propose three Axioms of the Theory of Elementary Waves (TEW) as a better platform for mathematics in this experiment than the Axioms of QM. This constitutes a paradigm shift.

scholarly journals A Tiny, Counterintuitive Change to the Mathematics of the Schrodinger Wave Packet and Quantum ElectroDynamics Could Vastly Simplify How We View Nature

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 169-203
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Wave Packet ◽  
Quantum Electrodynamics ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Zero Energy ◽  
Elementary Wave ◽  
Wave Particle Duality ◽  
The World ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

This article proposes that an unexpected approach to the mathematics of a Schro ̋dinger wave packet and Quantum Electro-Dynamics (QED), could vastly simplify how we perceive the world around us. It could get rid of most if not all quantum weirdness. Schro ̋dinger’s cat would be gone. Even things that we thought were unquestionably true about the quantum world would change. For example, the double slit experiment would no longer support wave particle duality. Experiments that appeared to say that entangled particles can communicate instantaneously over great distances, would no longer say that. Although the tiny mathematical change is counterintuitive, Occam’s razor dictates that we consider it because it simplifies how we view Nature in such a pervasive way. The change in question is to view a Schro ̋dinger wave packet as part of a larger Elementary Wave traveling in the opposite direction. It is known in quantum mechanics that the same wave can travel in two countervailing directions simultaneously. Equivalent changes would be made to QED and Quantum Field Theory. It is known in QM that there are zero energy waves: for example, the Schro ̋dinger wave carries amplitudes but not energy.

scholarly journals THE PHYSICS OF QUANTUM INFORMATION: COMPLEMENTARITY, UNCERTAINTY, AND ENTANGLEMENT

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (08) ◽  
pp. 1330002 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSEPH M. RENES
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Quantum Information ◽  
Quantum Information Processing ◽  
Quantum Information Theory ◽  
Wave Particle Duality ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

Complementarity is one of the central mysteries of quantum mechanics, dramatically illustrated by the wave-particle duality in Young's double-slit experiment, and famously regarded by Feynman as "impossible, absolutely impossible to describe classically, [and] which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics" (emphasis original).1 The overarching goal of this thesis is to demonstrate that complementarity is also at the heart of quantum information theory, that it allows us to make (some) sense of just what information "quantum information" refers to, and that it is useful in understanding and constructing quantum information processing protocols.

Quantum Interference: Wave–Particle Duality

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-136
Author(s):  
M. Suhail Zubairy
Keyword(s):  
Wave Function ◽  
Quantum Interference ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Delayed Choice ◽  
Wave Nature ◽  
Light Waves ◽  
Wave Particle Duality ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

Young’s double-slit experiment played a crucial role in establishing the wave nature of light. In this chapter, the shocking result that incident electrons yield a similar interference pattern as that formed by light waves is described. It is shown that the only way the experimental results could be explained is via a wave function description of electrons. It is also shown that, in the same experiment, the interference fringes disappear if the which-path information becomes available. This is the essence of wave–particle duality. The first of the Einstein–Bohr debates on wave-particle duality and Bohr’s principle of complementarity in the double-slit experiment is also discussed. Also presented are the counterintuitive notions of delayed choice and quantum eraser effects showing how the availability or erasure of information generated in the future can affect how the data in the present can be interpreted.

Wave Theory

2020 ◽  
pp. 50-70
Author(s):  
M. Suhail Zubairy
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Superposition Principle ◽  
Wave Theory ◽  
Quantum Mechanical ◽  
Wave Particle Duality ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
The Waves ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

One of the earliest and most important tenets of quantum mechanics is the wave-particle duality: light behaves sometimes like a wave and at other times as particle and similarly an electron can also behave both like a particle and as a wave. When the formal laws of quantum mechanics are formulated, the central quantity that describes the particles is the wave function. This points to the need for a good understanding of the properties of the waves. This chapter introduces the concepts and most essential applications that are required to follow the discussion of quantum mechanical laws and systems. The basic characteristics of the waves, such as the superposition principle are presented, and the interference and the diffraction phenomena are discussed. The Young’s double slit experiment in analysed and the formation of interference pattern is explicitly shown. The Rayleigh criterion for the microscopic resolution is also derived.

scholarly journals The Von Neumann and Double Slit Paradoxes Lead to a New Schrodinger Wave Mathematics

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 5812-5834
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Speed Of Light ◽  
Zero Energy ◽  
John Von Neumann ◽  
Wave Function Collapse ◽  
Von Neumann ◽  
Mathematical Reason ◽  
Gun Firing ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

John von Neumann states a paradox. Why does measuring something disrupt the smooth Schrödinger wave, causing it to collapse for no mathematical reason? This paradox is embedded in the double slit experiment. When a dot appears on the target screen, how does that cause the Schrödinger wave to collapse everywhere else, faster than the speed of light? Von Neumann didn’t follow his mathematics to its logical conclusion. If wave function collapse irreversably changes reality, then the math is telling us that the timing and location of that event cannot be at the target screen. An event fitting that description happens only once: at the gun. A gunshot CAN change history. We propose a new mathematics of Schrödinger waves. Zero energy waves from the target screen pass backwards through the double slits and impinge on the gun prior to the gun firing. A particle randomly chooses one to follow backwards. The particle’s choice of wave is proportional to the amplitude squared of that wave at the gun, determined by the superposition of the two waves moving backwards through the two slits. Why follow a wave of zero energy? Because Schrödinger waves convey amplitudes determining the probability density of that path.

Quantum fluctuations and the double-slit experiment

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (18) ◽  
pp. 1950139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaume Giné
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Uncertainty Principle ◽  
Quantum Fluctuations ◽  
Vacuum Fluctuations ◽  
Wave Particle Duality ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

The double-slit experiment is a demonstration of wave-particle duality and one of the most fundamental experiments that help us understand the nature of quantum mechanics. In this work, we give a new explanation of this experiment in terms of the uncertainty principle and vacuum fluctuations. This explanation allows one to understand why the electron interferes with itself when being shot through the double-slit.

scholarly journals Finally making sense of the double-slit experiment

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (25) ◽  
pp. 6480-6485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yakir Aharonov ◽  
Eliahu Cohen ◽  
Fabrizio Colombo ◽  
Tomer Landsberger ◽  
Irene Sabadini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wave Function ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Equations Of Motion ◽  
Heisenberg Picture ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Nonlocal Equations ◽  
Quantum Wave ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

Feynman stated that the double-slit experiment “…has in it the heart of quantum mechanics. In reality, it contains the only mystery” and that “nobody can give you a deeper explanation of this phenomenon than I have given; that is, a description of it” [Feynman R, Leighton R, Sands M (1965) The Feynman Lectures on Physics]. We rise to the challenge with an alternative to the wave function-centered interpretations: instead of a quantum wave passing through both slits, we have a localized particle with nonlocal interactions with the other slit. Key to this explanation is dynamical nonlocality, which naturally appears in the Heisenberg picture as nonlocal equations of motion. This insight led us to develop an approach to quantum mechanics which relies on pre- and postselection, weak measurements, deterministic, and modular variables. We consider those properties of a single particle that are deterministic to be primal. The Heisenberg picture allows us to specify the most complete enumeration of such deterministic properties in contrast to the Schrödinger wave function, which remains an ensemble property. We exercise this approach by analyzing a version of the double-slit experiment augmented with postselection, showing that only it and not the wave function approach can be accommodated within a time-symmetric interpretation, where interference appears even when the particle is localized. Although the Heisenberg and Schrödinger pictures are equivalent formulations, nevertheless, the framework presented here has led to insights, intuitions, and experiments that were missed from the old perspective.

Heat, quantum mechanics and information

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 2692-2695
Author(s):  
Bhekuzulu Khumalo
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Energy Transfer ◽  
Transfer Process ◽  
Energy Transfer Process ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

Heat has often been described as part of the energy transfer process. Information theory says everything is information. If everything is information then what type of information is heat, this question can be settled by the double slit experiment, but we must know what we are looking for. 

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